Constance Harris

With deep sadness, the family of Connie Harris (nee Greive) announces her passing,
peacefully at home, on March 3, 2022.

Born in 1922 Connie was just months away from her 100th birthday. She emigrated
to Canada from England when she was a young child, living in the east end of the
city. She attended St. Bridget’s Elementary School and Loretta Brunswick High
School. She is predeceased by her brothers George and Frank Greive and sister Mary
Neill. A Bookkeeper by trade, she worked at The News Company, a clearing house
for magazines, newspapers and books until 1944 when she met and married the love
of her life, Donald Harris, with whom she had six children: Michael (Jackie), Nancy,
Irene (Warren), Dan (Kathy), Brian (Liz) and Patty.

Always surrounded by her family, Connie made the world a better place for
everyone who came into her life. Having grown up in the Depression, she knew what
it meant to face challenges head on and support those around her. With great sad-
ness, she lost Donald when he died in 1975. Four years later she would lose her
youngest of six children, Patricia Anne, who died at 17 years of age, in a bus crash
on a Weston Collegiate ski trip. Her eldest son, Michael, was lost to us in 2019 from
Cancer. Connie was a steadfast cheerleader of all her grand and great grandchil-
dren: grandson Gregory (Olie); granddaughter Kristin (Kieran), great grandson Declan;
granddaughter Katie (Ian), great grandson Alexander, granddaughter Emily (Matt) ,
great grandson Freddie George, granddaughter Kelly (Lauren), great granddaughter
Elodie, great-grandson Gabriel, granddaughter Lauren, granddaughter LeeAnn
( Dan), great granddaughter Reese, great grandsons Harrison, and Elliot. All of
these children, grandchildren and great grandchildren meant so much to Connie, en-
riched her life and gave her hours of fun in her last years with us. Our thanks to
Connie’s friends Edna Siano, Loretta Bloomfield and Alberta Armstrong for their con-
tinued friendship and support. Connie was the cornerstone of our family, a phenom-
enal baker and a persistent optimist. Her life was filled with lots of love, admiration
and caring, which she gave back to all of us.

Our thanks to the Sinai Health palliative home care health team who helped make it
possible for Connie to live at home until she died. There will be a private family fu-
neral, in recognition of the need for pandemic social distancing. Messages are wel-
comed and can be left on the The Ward’s Funeral Home website. If desired, dona-
tions are welcomed for Connie’s favourite charities, Covenant House or the Hospital
for Sick Children.